Textual note from The Joseph Smith Papers explains the apparent shift in handwriting in the Kingsbury manuscript.

Date
2024
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Website
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The Joseph Smith Papers
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Reference

Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132], The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed November 21, 2024

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The Joseph Smith Papers
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The Joseph Smith Papers
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Transcription

TEXT: There is a significant shift in the handwriting style at this point, likely reflecting Kingsbury rushing to finish the copy. Kingsbury recollected later in his life that his work of copying the revelation was interrupted by Hyrum Smith, who “came in and wanted the revelation.” Newel K. Whitney “came in to see how I got along with it . . . and then he went out and told Hyrum Smith that he would hand him the revelation in a few minutes, for I was not quite through the copying of it.” (Joseph Kingsbury, Testimony, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 17 Mar. 1892, p. 178, question 19, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints v. Church of Christ of Independence, Missouri, et al. [C.C.W.D. Mo. 1894], typescript, United States Testimony, CHL.)

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